New Zealand’s domestic politics have been transformed by the 2017 general election. But the same can’t be assumed for its foreign and defence policies. Not even growing talk of war on the Korean peninsula …

Reformist, not revolutionary: that will be the tone of the three-way Labour-led governing arrangement announced late on 19 August. Incoming prime minister Jacinda Ardern is 37. For many, she personifies a generational shift, which is …